‣Aid versus Investment

‣The Economic Downturn

‣Political and Military Domination: Superpowers

‣The Globalization of Health and Pharmaceuticals

‣Science: the New Global Religion?

‣Trade and Treaties

▼Sustainable Agriculture

    Sustainable agriculture refers to a farm’s ability to produce sufficient agricultural products, both crops and livestock while ensuring that minimal damage, if any, is made to the ecosystem. The global demand for food has rapidly increased in the past few years making it crucial that our methods of agriculture will sustain our planet and our increasing demand for food.  Sustainable agriculture is a goal for which we must reevaluate and restructure our farms and farming practices.

    Sustainable agriculture consists of three, sometimes conflicting goals; environmental conscience, farm profitability and the welfare of farming communities. There are two views taken on this topic, the natural approach and the technological perspective. The latter approach includes borrowing methods of cell multiplication to create food and livestock rather than growing it. Naturalists choose to adopt less dramatic methods such as crop rotation and natural pesticide and herbicide use, to ensure sustainable farming. As a result the two views commonly conflict with one another. Sustainable agriculture does not have to be achieved solely through the application of one system or the other. Rather an amalgamation of the two may provide greater and more immediate results.

    The need for sustainable agriculture is evident; however, how we achieve it is a controversial and unresolved question.

‣Cultural Amalgamation